SEC acusa criador do golpe CoinDeal e outros sete
- A SEC acusou Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott e empresas relacionadas pelo golpe CoinDeal.
- Os supostos golpistas abordaram as pessoas para investir dinheiro na tecnologia blockchain CoinDeal e levantaram $45 milhões com o mesmo.
- Foi prometido que o CoinDeal seria vendido por trilhões de dólares para indivíduos ricos, mas nenhuma venda ocorreu.
- Chandran usou o dinheiro para comprar carros, imóveis e um barco.
As autoridades nos Estados Unidos tornaram-se cada vez mais céticas em relação às criptomoedas e ativos digitais, e está claro, pelo recente enxame de acusações, que a Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (SEC) reinou contra as empresas de criptografia e seus fundadores. À luz de eventos semelhantes, o regulador de valores mobiliários acusou o fundador da CoinDeal, juntamente com outros sete, em conexão com uma fraude de $45 milhões.
De acordo com um Comunicado de imprensa from the SEC, the regulator charged Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott, AEO Publishing Inc., Banner Co-Op, Inc., and BannersGo, LLC, for their alleged “involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme named CoinDeal that raised more than $45 million from sales of unregistered securities to tens of thousands of investors worldwide.”
“We allege the defendants falsely claimed access to valuable blockchain technology and that the imminent sale of the technology would generate investment returns of more than 500,000 times for investors,” said Daniel Gregus, Director of the SEC’s Chicago Regional Office. “As alleged in our complaint, in reality this was all just an elaborate scheme where the defendants enriched themselves while defrauding tens of thousands of retail investors.”
As per the SEC’s complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the people involved in the scam, Chandran, Davidson, Glaspie, Knott, and Mossel, made false claims about the potential of investment in blockchain technology, CoinDeal, to investors and promised people that the technology will be sold to wealthy people for trillions of dollars. However, this wasn’t the case.
No sale of CoinDeal ever occurred while Chandran, Davidson, Glaspie, Knott, and Mossel “disseminated false and misleading statements to investors regarding the purported value of CoinDeal, the parties involved in the supposed sale of CoinDeal, and the use of investment proceeds” between January 2019 to 2022
The SEC also believes that together, the people involved in the CoinDeal scheme successfully “misappropriated millions of dollars of investor funds for personal use,” and reportedly, Chandran had purchased cars, real estate, and a boat using the same. It is also crucial to note that in June 2022, Chandran was indicted by the DoJ in the US District Court for the District of Nebraska “on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of monetary transactions in unlawful proceeds for his involvement in CoinDeal.”
“The SEC’s complaint seeks disgorgement plus pre-judgment interest, penalties, and permanent injunctions against all defendants; officer and director bars against Chandran, Davidson, Glaspie, Knott, and Mossel; and a conduct-based injunction against Chandran,” the statement read further.
Recentemente, a celebridade popular Kim Kardashian, também ficou sob a mira da SEC para o promoção de EthereumMAX (EMAX), um esquema de criptografia supostamente bombeado e despejado. Além disso, a SEC e a CFTC começaram cada vez mais a reprimir as empresas de criptomoedas, e esta última recentemente acusou Adam Todd, fundador da exchange de futuros de criptomoedas e mercado à vista Digitex, por várias violações do Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).
Jornalista cripto com mais de 3 anos de experiência em DeFi, NFT, metaverso, etc. Parth trabalhou com grandes meios de comunicação no mundo cripto e financeiro e ganhou experiência e conhecimento em cultura criptográfica depois de sobreviver a mercados de baixa e alta ao longo dos anos.
